Sentences with phrase «of prosthetic legs»

I now have 12 pairs of prosthetic legs.

In 2010 with Art in Odd Places, for example, the artists had a retired firefighter take an impression of a plaque for those lost on 9/11 at his old station, an Israeli veteran use the back of his prosthetic leg to imprint a High Line bench, and Seisler and her brother make interlocking impressions on a Union Square building.

Not exact matches

The RIC's most recent advance, the development of the world's first mind controlled prosthetic leg, was aided by $ 8 million worth of funding from the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.

One of Stratasys» subsidiaries can even scan the surviving leg of an amputee wounded in combat while still in field in Afghanistan and have a new, perfectly - fitted 3D - printed prosthetic ready hours later when he's delivered to Germany for surgery.

April 6, 2017 www.theglobeandmail.com Lego lovers know the colourful little toy bricks have a myriad of uses, from building simple houses to full - scale cars and functioning prosthetic legs.

Wise has also had the opportunity to support his family in turn — for example, pledging 10 percent of his winnings and endorsement earnings to a charity he and his sisters founded that provides children with prosthetic limbs (Wise's sister Christy, an Air Force pilot, lost her leg in a 2015 boat accident).

Over the last decade lightweight carbon fiber and improvements in the design of the prosthetic racing foot have so improved performance that some people believe a human being without legs could have an advantage over one with them.

Matt's right leg ends in a silver prosthetic and as another string of cars barrels by, he has to shuffle around the puppy to watch the action.

Contreras - Vidal said the next step will be to translate the discovery to a high - tech prosthetic leg that can automatically adjust to different terrains through a brain - machine interface, developed by his collaborator Helen Huang of North Carolina State University.

Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC), which governs the Paralympic Games, regulates prosthetic length for double - leg amputees based on a number of factors including wingspan (from the tips of one's fingers on one hand to those on the other hand while the arms are held perpendicular to the body) and height.

When amputees receive powered prosthetic legs, the power of the prosthetic limbs needs to be tuned by a prosthetics expert so that a patient can move normally — but the prosthetic often needs repeated re-tuning.

But last summer, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge showed that Pistorius's prosthetic limbs didn't generate as much force against the ground as biological legs.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His first prosthetic legs were made of plaster of paris.

It's not easy to build prosthetics for animals that weigh 2,700 kilograms — veterinarians and prosthetists had to invent a new technique just to take casts of the animals» stumps — but today, both elephants are lumbering around on their new legs, made from a combination of plastic and metal.

The goal of all prosthetic research is to bring the patient back to the same ease, comfort and ability as with a natural leg.

In a paper published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, the team reports that it has calculated the ideal torque that a prosthetic knee should produce, given the mass of the leg segments, in order to induce able - bodied kinematics, or normal walking.

A lot of them can go back because we've got good prosthetic legs, and now we've got the prosthetic arm that's really close to being FDA [Food and Drug Administration] approved.

The Patent Office granted 133 patents for artificial limbs and other prosthetic devices between 1861 and 1873; at the same time, the federal government and many states also established programs that distributed artificial arms and legs to veterans free of charge.

Such a prosthetic limb, for example, would replace parts of an arm or leg.

In the fall, I had regained enough mobility to begin the process of having a prosthetic leg designed.

«We shot photos of me in a variety of sprinting positions, wearing tight shorts that hugged my thighs but left my prosthetic lower legs completely naked,» he says.

Latvia - born singer and model Viktoria Modesta released her first music video last week on Channel 4, in which she proudly struts a series of beautiful prosthetic legs.

Star athlete undergoes experimental surgery that permanently attaches a bionic leg and arm to his body but he quickly realises the advanced intelligent prosthetics have a destructive mind of their own.

There's a great scene a little over halfway through David Gordon Green's «Stronger,» in which Jeff Bauman, who lost both of his legs just above the knee in the Boston Marathon bombing, is trying to stand on new prosthetics for the first time.

She was uninjured, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, which led to a long period of rehabilitation and learning to walk on his new $ 100,000 prosthetic legs.

These cigar - smoking party boys are loving the life of the downsized but also ironically hold a key to Paul's fate, as does a Vietnamese refugee named Ngoc who sports a prosthetic leg below the knee (Hong Chau plays this one - of - a kind character in a way you will not forget, stealing every scene she's in).

He now walks with the use of two prosthetic legs.

The female characters, alas, are given considerably less to do: Sophie Cookson makes scant impression as one of Eggsy's fellow recruits; and Sofia Boutella, who plays Valentine's right - hand woman, is notable principally for her razor sharp prosthetic legs — an ironic updating (and not the only one) of Rosa Klebb's switchblade shoes in From Russia with Love.

Jeff Bauman's life story is a devastating and inspiring tale of loss and triumph over adversity: His legs were amputated above the knee after he was wounded in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, but with the aid of prosthetics, he learned to walk again.

Missing a leg, too, by the time she escapes, she finds refuge — and prosthetic limbs — in the village of Comfort, whose denizens mostly give her space.

Besides, it boasts the best henchman in years in Gazelle (Sofia Boutella), who's like something out of a Matthew Barney fever dream with her prosthetic lower legs, sharpened to deadly knife edges and puncturing tools.

The students designed prosthetic legs out of old car parts.

In 2009, a freak accident with a harvester severed both of Oscar's hind legs, and he underwent an operation for prosthetic limbs, designed by Biomedical Engineers from the University College London, making him a pioneer in the science of bionic limbs for animals.

We've seen many amazing stories of 3D printing technology helping injured birds, from 3D printed beaks and feet to orthotic boots, leg braces, and prosthetic legs.

However, the prosthetic slips off when Pete lifts his leg, so the team is currently working on a third design at the Fabrication Lab, which will employ some sort of system to attach the prosthetic securely to Pete's body, like a flight vest or a half - solid, half - soft boot.

The first surgery was simply to save as much of the cat's legs and skin as possible in the hope of being able to fit her with prosthetics.

Our purpose at My Pet's Brace is to help pet families and veterinary professionals help animals benefit from the cutting edge clinical application of leg braces, orthotics and prosthetics.

Enough money was raised to cover Dan's surgeries (there were many), his two prosthetics for his legs and to help a few of his friends (Peanut and Buck)!

Their hope is to get the right rear leg to heal well enough that he can continue to walk on it without needing a protective bandage, and get the left rear limb to heal well enough to allow use of a prosthetic.

Dan has finished all of his skin grafts at Capital Veterinary Specialists and is being fitted for his prosthetic leg.

Prosthetics: These devices are used to replace a missing leg or portion of a leg that's amputated due to a traumatic injury or illness.

Industrial design student Kai Lin (B.I.D.» 15) designed KLIPPA, a prosthetic leg for amputee rock climbers, for Professor of Industrial Design Jonathan Thayer's Aesthetics of Prosthetics class.

Highlights of the installation include the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), which explores Attia's research on the Vatican's collection of ethnological artifacts; Artificial Nature (2014), a floor sculpture constructed of many antique prosthetic legs; and a work composed of two large - scale reproductions of historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, Émile Jean - Horace Vernet's The First Mass in Kabylia (1854) and Victor Meirelles's The First Mass in Brazil (1861).

V&A, London 16 June — 4 November 2018 Frida Kahlo's vibrant outfits are a recognisable hallmark of her work — from floral headdresses and traditional Mexican skirts to hand - decorated medical corsets and a prosthetic leg wearing a bright red lace - up boot with bells.

And prosthetic legs don't really go in the water, so it was always just kind of an alienating feeling being like, Well, you know I have to take my leg off now.

I have an entire leg prosthetic, since I'm missing part of my hipbone.

If you're Mass MoCA, you shroud Christoph Büchel's incomplete 2007 «Training Ground for Democracy» in yellow tarps and air your dirty laundry by displaying his list of requested materials for the piece, which included 8 voting booths, piles of old computers, 1,000 feet of barbed wire, 12 grenades, 8 body bags, 4 prosthetic legs, and the fuselage of a 737 airliner.

A gallery show, kicking off on Jan. 6, displays the works — created on prosthetic legs — before they're auctioned off online at the end of the month.